Obsolete C for you and me

Posted Dec 9, 2023 15:24 UTC (Sat) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Obsolete C for you and me by willy
Parent article: Modern C for Fedora (and the world)

> I'm not sure where C was being written in the 1970s and 1980s that didn't have an FP unit.

Intel before the (was it) 486? Or more likely the 386. Which iirc we're talking early 90s. I'm sure I was using a load of 286 computers when I started that new job in 1989 ...

Cheers,
Wol

Obsolete C for you and me

Posted Dec 11, 2023 10:23 UTC (Mon) by taladar (subscriber, #68407) [Link] (1 responses)

IIRC 386 and 486 had SX and DX variants and the former had no FPU and the latter did.

Obsolete C for you and me

Posted Dec 11, 2023 11:02 UTC (Mon) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

That's true for the 486, but no 386 had a built-in FPU - the 386SX had a 16-bit data bus and the 386DX had a 32-bit one.